November 30, 2023 to February 10, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 30, 5:00-8:00 pm
When observed closely, human and non-human relations echo onto one another: a tree branch is a lightning strike is a crack in the sidewalk. Inviting a recognition of the cycles of rot and regeneration, To Broadcast is to Scatter illuminates memory-marking within the human insistence on organizing time.
Guided by the principles of the rhizome, described by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as a network of connections with no beginning and no end, this exhibition is also informed by cultural scholars Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker’s proposition of “thick time.” Within the thick time model, layers of time stack together, expand and contract. This model encourages us to refuse a distinction between the human and non-human world, and instead, embrace an embodied understanding of ourselves as deep archives.
Artists Diana Sofia Lozano, Cadence Planthara, and Natalia Villanueva Linares present works that embrace multiplicity, hybridity, and unfixedness. seth cardinal dodginghorse, June Canedo de Souza, and collaborators Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind explore their family histories to reflect on inheritance: what is lost, what is found, and what may be seeded. Across the works, we are asked to entwine, not to arrive at something, but to get closer to it. How may we lean into an understanding of time as rhizomatic?
To Broadcast is to Scatter is the third and final exhibition presented as part of the School of Art Gallery’s Visiting Curator Program. Launched in Summer 2021, this initiative supports curatorial research, exhibitions, events, and publications by emerging and established guest curators alike.
The Visiting Curator Program is a catalyst for international-calibre exhibitions and aims to play a vital role in defining contemporary art and its attendant discourses in the Prairies. It gives students, faculty, and other community members meaningful opportunities to engage with curators who are charting bold new trajectories in their field. Through a significant mentorship component, it aims to foster new and strong curatorial voices.
This program is generously supported by Michael F. B. Nesbitt.
Artists
In dialogue
June Canedo de Souza: O Escândalo
Lobby Gallery
Through the repetitive motion of sweeping, the artist retraces the domestic landscapes and stories of her childhood, extending an invitation to listen to what may be untold as these stories trickle through family members.
O Escândalo is an installation and performance, initially presented on July 26, 2022 in New York. On July 27, 2022 viewers were invited to return and reflect on their memories of the work.
Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: In Vitro
Collections Gallery
In Arabic with English subtitles
Filmed in black and white, In Vitro is a 2-channel Arabic sci-fi film in which its protagonists negotiate questions of cultural heritage and memory, engaging dichotomies and dualities of myth/fiction, natural worlds/human architectures, and inherited trauma/collective memory. As Alia and Dunia navigate generational disagreements, above ground, an abandoned nuclear reactor is prepared to be planted by heirloom seeds. Despite what we seek in the face of colonial catastrophe, the land itself endures.
In Vitro was commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation for the Danish Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2019 and produced by Spike Island.